Author: Anne Kostick

Anne Kostick

About Anne Kostick

Anne has been a partner in Foxpath IND since 2000, specializing in the transition to and from traditional content publishing and online content development, management, and publishing. Her clients include trade book publishers; technology and financial services Web sites; and arts and cultural institutions. Anne’s semimonthly column, Digital Reading, discusses user experience and related topics in ebooks and digital reading. Anne currently serves as president of Women’s Media Group, a 35-year-old industry organization, and is a member of the advisory boards of the Publishing Innovation Awards and BEA Conference 2012. She is the author of several books for children and a definitive collection of jokes.

Digital Reading: Getting Agile About Books

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Last week I had the opportunity to moderate a webcast titled “Agile Content Development for Book Publishers.” We had less than an hour to explain, demonstrate and sometimes defend the agile methodology in its use for books. We certainly didn’t …

Digital Reading: Renaming the (Digital) Book

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Speaking of user experience—we haven’t yet discovered the word that will describe the digital, transmutable, readable, platform-agnostic, weightless, immersive, elastic … creation, hitherto known as a book. We should hurry up and get this naming process started. Why should we …